Re: Cisco Announced change to R&S

Nice Calculation Darby....

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Darby Weaver <ccie.weaver_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> One more thing:
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> On the CCIE Recert every three years:
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> If a CCIE has "moved on" to bigger and better things...
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> Statistically it will increase the value of the actual current CCIE's to
> reflect this fact.
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> This would be the single biggest initiative Cisco could make to increase
> the
> value of the CCIE program.
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> 1. It shows that the CCIE is the "MBA" of the IT World and that CCIE's do
> move on to Design/Architecture/Management/Executive roles.
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> 2. It would reflect the actual number of available CCIE's for hire and
> available for work as CCIE's.
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> 3. I think CCIE's who are trainers ought to have a desgnation as well.
> See
> there are a lot of CCIE's who as work solely as trainers.
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> Now look at the numbers:
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> 20,000 - Total Ever Certified
> 5000 - Decertified or not current
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> 15,000 - Total Active CCIE's
> 5000 - CCIE's who have been "promoted" and no longer available for hire as
> a "CCIE doing the grunt work"
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> 10,000 - Truly available CCIE's
>
> Hmm...
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> So if a CCIE was worth say 100,000.00 by HR based on the conception that
> there were 20,000 available fish in the sea.
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> Now that CCIE is worh 100,000 + X since scarcity is now an issue.
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> Take away Cisco Employees.... and there may only be 3000 - 5000 available
> CCIE's for actual employers in the world.
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